Articles tagged "Kenya"

Poor Grandpa! (Mag: Articles)

By Ken Walibora | May 1, 2013

I never wanted to remember at all, let alone write about, what transpired when I took a walk with Grandpa to the sprawling Kariobangi slum area, that part of the slum known as Korogocho. I didn’t…...

Translated from Swahili by Ken Walibora

An Athenian Story from…the Alexandra Birth Clinic (Dispatches)

By Gazmend Kapllani | March 31, 2009

This is the fifth and final installment in a series of "Athenian Stories" from Gazmend Kapllani as a complement to our Greek issue this month. In these short dispatches, Kapllani documents the experience…...

Garbage (Mag: Articles)

By Marco Baliani | August 1, 2005

Chokora. Garbage. Now I know why they call them that. They are of the same color as the street, a noncolor, one that time, wear and tear leave on things like an indelible patina, a distilled filth, that…...

Translated from Italian by Maria Enrico

from Three Dreams on Mount Meru (Mag: Articles)

By François Devenne | January 1, 2005

Today, in the year 1170 of the Hegira, as I finish the narration of my journey to Mount Meru, I can't help thinking about Omui. He was the best storyteller in all Mombasa. The fabulous stories he would…...

Translated from French by Lauren Yoder

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